Ethics in Bricks

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Rich Titanic tourists sink in submarine: Whole world watches as navies spare no expense to find them. Hundreds of migrants sink in overcrowded boat: Hope you can swim, losers.

23/06/21 02:34

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"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings." - Ursula K. Le Guin

23/05/06 23:07

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If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would try to figure out what's wrong. When humans do it we put them on cover of Forbes.

23/03/20 17:20

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🧵THREAD: I have a joke about Sisyphus.

22/11/27 04:01

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"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction [.] and the distinction between true and false [.] no longer exists.” - Hannah Arendt

22/10/31 23:21

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The harm principle: Your freedom ends where it harms others.

22/10/28 23:00

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"The more we view ourselves as self-made and self-sufficient, the less likely we are to care for the fate of those less fortunate than ourselves." - Michael Sandel

22/08/28 19:14

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"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings." - Ursula K. Le Guin

22/08/13 20:34

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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov

22/08/11 22:38

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Philanthropy is fine. Paying taxes is better.

22/08/08 20:25

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"In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.” - David Graeber

22/07/26 03:59

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"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.

22/07/19 20:57

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"People’s obsession with Mars and indifference to earth’s climate crisis annoys the hell out of me, our planet is literally a green paradise of waterfalls flowers and cool creatures and you’re more excited about sitting on a red barren rock." - @daisyldixon

22/06/14 21:49

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If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would try to figure out what's wrong. When humans do it we put them on cover of Forbes.

22/05/21 02:56

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"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve." - Elon Musk "In an unequal society, those who land on top want to believe their success is morally justified." - Michael Sandel

22/05/11 16:23

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If you have more than you need, build a longer table - not a higher fence.

22/04/22 13:18

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The @shell doctrine: Why be ethical if you can also make a lot of money instead? twitter.com/econinbricks/s…

22/03/06 21:08

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Philanthropy exists to launder the reputations of the rich.

22/01/28 03:51

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A city has 100 inhabitants. 99 have been vaccinated 1 has not 2 people get COVID-19: 1 vaccinated and 1 unvaccinated: Some newspapers: “50% of the Covid patients are vaccinated! Vaccines do not work!l” What could possibly be wrong with such headlines?

22/01/22 03:20

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"The ends justify the means." - Machiavelli "Even the very wise cannot see all ends.” - Gandalf

22/01/16 23:52

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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor." - Desmond Tutu (1931 - 2021)

21/12/26 16:25

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"Just because your voice now goes all across the world does not mean you are any wiser than when it only went to the end of the bar." - Edward R. Murrow

21/12/24 20:40

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"Reading good books is like having conversations with the finest minds of the past.” - René Descartes

21/12/12 17:45

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"What Orwell failed to predict is that we'd buy the cameras ourselves, and that our biggest fear would be that nobody was watching." - Keith Lowell Jensen

21/12/09 05:23

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"The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital." - Noam Chomsky (born #onthisday)

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